Improvement in head-rests



I. B. PECKHAM. HEAD-RESTS.

Patented Oct.2,1877

By monms.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC B. PEOKHAM, OF BANGOR, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HEAD-RESTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 195,842, dated October 2, 1877; application filed February 17, 1877.

E To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC B. PECKHAM, of Bangor, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved Head-Rest for Cars, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing Fignre 1 repbracket with horizontally-turning and clamped head-rest.

In the drawing, A represents a base or supporting rack-plate that is screwed to the panel between the windows of a car or steamboat, or around the masts, or to a fixed upright rod or pipe, which is run up at the back of the seats next to the center aisle.

Along the rack-plate A is guided a vertically-adjustable slide-plate, B, that locks by a pivot-pawl, O, at the lower end into the teeth of the rack-plate, and by a thumb-nut, G, at the upper end to a fixed post of the rack-plate, so as to admit adjustment to the height of the head of the passenger.

The slide B carries a horizontally-projecting bracket, B, that is provided with a fixed pivotbolt, a, on which swings horizontally the curved head-rest D, that is made of suitable metal and covered with leather, velvet, or other material, in the customary manner. The head-rest D is turned on the pivot-bolt by an arc-shaped slot of its rest-plate into the direction in which the cars are running, and is then rigidly fastened to the supporting-bracket by a clamp-nut, d, into convenient position for the head. The thumb-nut on the slide-plate prevents the rattling of the same by the motion of the car or boat, While the thumb-nut of the bracket produces the fixed position of the head-rest, and the steady and comfortable support for the head, the whole device being made of suitable cast metal, to be manufactured at reasonable expense.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A head-rest for cars and steamboats, c011- sisting of a rack-plate with vertically-adjustable slide-plate, secured by pawl and thumbnut, and of a horizontally-swinging and slotted head-rest clamped to a supporting-bracket of slide-plate, substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

ISAAC BURDEN PECKHAM.

Witnesses:

ALBION VEAZIE, THOMAS SHEA. 

